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“Well it’s a circus act, it’s an absurd act,You know, it’s a dress-up. It’s a classic English thing of let’s play dress-up. Let’s pretend that these are special people. OK, we’ll all pretend that — that’s what theater is.”
“And that’s what the royal family is — it’s a huge game of pretend. These aren’t special people — its fake outfits, fake phoney hats and gowns.”
“It’s fantastic. We don’t have anything like that.”

“It’s a pile of sh!t, this race, it’s a whole pile of sh!t … you’re working like an animal, you don’t have the time to piss and you wet your pants … you’re riding in mud like this and you’re slipping and … it’s a pile of sh!t, you must clean yourself otherwise you will go mad …”

“Willl you ever ride it again?”

“Sure, it’s the most beautiful race in the world!”

Dutchman Theo de Rooij interview after droping out of the Paris Roubaix 1985